{"id":58798,"date":"2019-12-18T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58798"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:48:35","slug":"foreign-direct-investments-surge-78-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-direct-investments-surge-78-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign direct investments surge by 78.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently notified a 78.1% increase in the country\u2019s foreign direct investment (FDI) levels recorded during the last five months of FY2019-20, according to news sources. The central bank further stated that a number of recently undertaken economic reforms \u2013 including the government\u2019s ease-of-doing-business initiative &#8211; had aided in strengthening investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p>As per the data released by the SBP, the country had received USD 477.3 million in foreign direct investment during the same period of the previous fiscal year. The analysts are hopeful that foreign investment will grow after the implementation of reforms backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and will lead to improved national economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/moodys-changes-outlook-of-five-leading-pakistani-banks-from-negative-to-stable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moody\u2019s changes outlook of five leading Pakistani banks from \u2018negative\u2019 to \u2018stable\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Bank\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/boi-expects-pakistans-ease-of-doing-business-ranking-to-improve.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ranking of Pakistan in the \u2018Ease-of-Doing-Business\u2019 has also moved up<\/a> from 136th position of the last year to 108th this year. Similarly, the surge in Pakistan\u2019s credit rating, recently announced by Moody\u2019s Investors Services, would also contribute towards improvement in the national economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-strategises-for-long-term-foreign-investments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBP strategises for long-term foreign investments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The central bank stated that the tenure of international investments was increasing as investor confidence grew. It also hinted that the taxation simplification for investment in government securities as approved recently by the Economic Coordination Committee would also encourage investments in longer-dated maturities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently notified a 78.1% increase in the country\u2019s foreign direct investment (FDI) levels recorded during the last five months of FY2019-20, according to news sources. The central bank further stated that a number of recently undertaken economic reforms \u2013 including the government\u2019s ease-of-doing-business initiative &#8211; had aided in strengthening investor confidence. As per the data released by the SBP, the country had received USD 477.3 million in foreign direct investment during the same period of the previous fiscal year. The analysts are hopeful that foreign investment will grow after the implementation of reforms backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and will lead to improved national economy. Read:\u00a0Moody\u2019s changes outlook of five leading Pakistani banks from \u2018negative\u2019 to \u2018stable\u2019 The World Bank\u2019s ranking of Pakistan in the \u2018Ease-of-Doing-Business\u2019 has also moved up from 136th position of the last year to 108th this year. Similarly, the surge in Pakistan\u2019s credit rating, recently announced by Moody\u2019s Investors Services, would also contribute towards improvement in the national economy. Read:\u00a0SBP strategises for long-term foreign investments The central bank stated that the tenure of international investments was increasing as investor confidence grew. It also hinted that the taxation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[14487],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-details-on-foreign-direct-investments-surge-by-78-1","10":"cat-15016-id","11":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Foreign direct investments surge by 78.1% - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently notified a 78.1% increase in the country\u2019s foreign direct investment (FDI) levels recorded during the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-direct-investments-surge-78-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foreign direct investments surge by 78.1% - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently notified a 78.1% increase in the country\u2019s foreign direct investment (FDI) levels recorded during the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-direct-investments-surge-78-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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